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Error Code -50 & Hard Drive Tranfer Complications
Hello,
I received an uncompressed 90GB .avi video file of a film transfer on my friend’s NTFS formatted external drive.
I work off a macbook pro (loaded with FCP studio) and an external lacie 1TB drive (mac formatted).
I was unable to drag the .avi file from the NTFS external HD into compressor to compress to prores, so I tried to drag and drop the .avi file onto my other external lacie drive thinking I could open it in compressor from there.
The process was estimated to take an hour and froze approx. 10 minutes from completion. I re-tried dragging and dropping – same result.
When the transfer freezes “error code -50” appears – I am at a loss as to what to do. -
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*furthermore:
the transfer of the .avi file from the NTFS drive to the lacie drive always stops at 78.85 / 90.85GB and displays “cannot be completed because of lack of permission/privileges” then the progress bar freezes and stays open – the only way to close it is to relaunch finder or restart the computer.
any ideas?
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What IS this mysterious error, “-50” ???
My system slows down, refuses to save (or save as) and rendering takes a glacial pace — about two minutes a frame (video).I’ve used disk utility repair, disc warrior. A few weeks ago I reinstalled Snow L 10.6.4, FCP 7. Should be an extremely clean hard drive!!!
I’m working on an HD project that’s 1280 x 1080, codec DVCPROHD 1080p30.
29.97 — Mac quad core, 4 gigs RAM. FCP 7.Any info? It only seems to be giving me trouble with this project/footage, but I was working with same footage before all reinstallations with no problems.
Thanks!
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Not that it helps entirely but here is a list of Mac error codes –
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/lenzo/html/mac_errors.htmlAccording to that list -error -50 paramErr: error in user parameter list
What are you doing that creates this error? Do you have any file names with illegal characters for example.
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Illegal character? Don’t know what that means. The files in Capture Scratch have not been renamed — ex: 0013ED. In the project bin, I renamed some of them such as 0013ED – Closeup take 1
The whole problem started this morning when I opened the project I was working on yesterday, and ALL the media was unlinked! FCP would not perform an automatic relink after I selected the folder the QTs reside in. I spend half a day just relinking the whole bloody thing by hand, and now I have the slow/won’t save issue.
(Client is scheduled for a visit at 8am tomorrow, of course…)
thx
“In modern action films, the only people who work up a sweat are the editors.” — Roger Ebert
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Perhaps the project file has become corrupted. Did you try opening an autosave from yesterday to see if the project comes up without the files off line?
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Yes, I did open from autosave — same problem. I even switched users but that did nothing. Then I made a new project, renamed, and copied & pasted the timeline cuts into that. Bleh.
Actually I’m beyond that now, as everything has been reconnected by hand. It’s still reacting slowly, but just this project.
When working on a different one: 1440 x 1080, HDV 1080i60, 29.97. Works fine.
So if my problem is a corrupt fcp file, how do I deal with that without doing damage to my movie? It’s an almost-locked feature, way too complicated to begin from scratch.
thx!
“In modern action films, the only people who work up a sweat are the editors.” — Roger Ebert
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